# 藪

| 藪 | U+85EA, &#34282; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-85EA |
| ← 藩 [U+85E9] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 藫 → [U+85EB] |

## Translingual
### Han character

藪 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+15, 21 strokes, cangjie input 廿中女大 (TLVK), four-corner 4444$_8$, composition ⿱艹數)
* marsh, swamp
* wild country
* clump of trees or bushes

#### Derived characters

* 𭬼

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1066, character 7
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32348
* Dae Jaweon: page 1531, character 6
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3319, character 5
* Unihan data for U+85EA

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 樓 | *ɡ·roː |
| 摟 | *roː, *ro |
| 耬 | *roː |
| 僂 | *ɡ·roː, *ɡ·roːs, *ɡ·roʔ |
| 婁 | *ɡ·roː, *ɡ·ro |
| 螻 | *roː |
| 髏 | *roː |
| 蔞 | *roː, *ro, *roʔ |
| 鞻 | *roː |
| 艛 | *ɡ·roː |
| 膢 | *roː, *ro |
| 廔 | *roː |
| 嘍 | *roː, *roːʔ |
| 瞜 | *roː, *ro |
| 簍 | *roː, *roːʔ, *roʔ |
| 慺 | *roː, *ro, *roʔ |
| 鷜 | *roː, *ro |
| 褸 | *roː, *roʔ |
| 遱 | *roː |
| 謱 | *roː, *roːʔ, *roʔ |
| 嶁 | *roːʔ, *roʔ |
| 甊 | *roːʔ |
| 塿 | *roːʔ |
| 漊 | *roːʔ, *roʔ |
| 鏤 | *roːs, *ro |
| 瘻 | *roːs, *ro |
| 擻 | *sloːʔ |
| 藪 | *sloːʔ |
| 籔 | *sloːʔ, *sroʔ |
| 氀 | *ro |
| 縷 | *roʔ |
| 屢 | *ros |
| 數 | *sroʔ, *sros, *sroːɡ |
| 屨 | *klos |
| 窶 | *ɡloʔ |
| 貗 | *ɡloʔ |

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): sǒu (sou$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄙㄡˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): sau$^2$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): só͘
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: sǒu
*** Zhuyin: ㄙㄡˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: sǒu
*** Wade–Giles: sou$^3$
*** Yale: sǒu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: soou
*** Palladius: соу (sou)
*** Sinological IPA : /soʊ̯²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: sau$^2$
*** Yale: sáu
*** Cantonese Pinyin: sau$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: seo$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /sɐu̯³⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: só͘
*** Tâi-lô: sóo
*** Phofsit Daibuun: sor
*** IPA (Xiamen): /sɔ⁵³/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /sɔ⁵⁵⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /sɔ⁵³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /sɔ⁵³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /sɔ⁴¹/
* Middle Chinese: suwX
Rime :
| Character | 藪 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 心 (16) |
| Final (韻) | 侯 (137) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 蘇后切 |
| Baxter | suwX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /səu$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /səu$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /səu$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /səw$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /su$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /səu$^X$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /sə̯u$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | sǒu |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | sau$^2$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*sloːʔ/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 藪 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 8484 |
| Phonetic component | 婁 |
| Rime group | 侯 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 叜 |
| Old Chinese | /*sloːʔ/ |

#### Definitions

藪
* shallow lake overgrown with wild plants
* gathering place

##### Compounds

* 利藪 / 利薮
* 斗藪
* 林藪 / 林薮
* 淵藪 / 渊薮
* 盜藪 / 盗薮 (dàosǒu)
* 藪幽 / 薮幽
* 藪澤 / 薮泽 (sǒuzé)
* 藪貓 / 薮猫 (sǒumāo)
* 藪鳥 / 薮鸟
* 言談林藪 / 言谈林薮
* 逋逃藪 / 逋逃薮 (būtáosǒu)

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): dòu (dou$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄉㄡˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): dau$^3$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): teu
    (Meixian, Guangdong): dêu$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: dòu
*** Zhuyin: ㄉㄡˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: dòu
*** Wade–Giles: tou$^4$
*** Yale: dòu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dow
*** Palladius: доу (dou)
*** Sinological IPA : /toʊ̯⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: dau$^3$
*** Yale: dau
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dau$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: deo$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /tɐu̯³³/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: teu
*** Hakka Romanization System: deu
*** Hagfa Pinyim: deu$^4$
*** Sinological IPA: /teu̯⁵⁵/
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: dêu$^4$
*** Sinological IPA: /teu⁵³/

#### Definitions

藪
* (Cantonese, Hakka) Alternative form of 竇 / 窦 (dòu, “nest; den; home”) (chiefly used in place names.)
    鶴藪／鹤薮 [Cantonese] ― hok$^6$ dau$^3$ [Jyutping] ― Hok Tau (a place in Hong Kong)

## Japanese

| Shinjitai (extended) | 薮 |
| Kyūjitai | 藪 |

### Alternative forms

* 薮, 籔

### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 薮)
* thicket, grove, copse
* collection

#### Readings

* Go-on: す (su)
* Kan-on: そう (sō)
* Kun: やぶ (yabu, 藪)

#### Compounds

* 藪沢(そうたく) (sōtaku)
* 淵藪(えんそう) (ensō)
* 談藪(だんそう) (dansō)
* 斗藪(とそう) (tosō)
* 林藪(りんそう) (rinsō)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 藪
* やぶ Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
From Old Japanese. Found in the Nihon Shoki (720 CE).

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) やぶ [yàbú] (Heiban – [0])
* IPA: [ja̠bɯ̟]

### Noun

藪(やぶ) • (yabu)
* a thicket, grove, copse (as of trees, shrubs, or bamboo)
    Synonym: (thick growth) 茂み (shigemi)
* Short for 藪医者 (yabu isha): a poor doctor
* Short for 藪入り (yabuiri): a holiday granted to servants on the 16th day of the first and seventh months
* Short for 藪睨み (yabunirami): a squint; a misguided thinking or view
* Short for 藪蕎麦 (yabusoba): a type of soba made from green buckwheat without the endocarp removed; a shop selling soba in this method

#### Derived terms

* 藪医(やぶい) (yabui)
* 藪(やぶ)医者(いしゃ) (yabu isha)
* 藪犬(ヤブイヌ) (yabuinu)
* 藪(やぶ)入(い)り (yabuiri)
* 藪(やぶ)鶯(うぐいす) (yabu uguisu)
* 藪内(やぶうち) (Yabuuchi)
* 藪(ヤブ)海老根(エビネ) (yabu ebine)
* 藪(ヤブ)蚊(カ), 豹脚蚊(ヤブカ) (yabuka)
* 藪陰(やぶかげ) (yabukage)
* 藪垣(やぶがき) (yabugaki)
* 藪(ヤブ)枯(ガラシ) (yabugarashi)
* 藪(ヤブ)萱草(カンゾウ) (yabu kanzō)
* 藪(ヤブ)螽蟖(キリ) (yabukiri)
* 藪(やぶ)潜(くぐ)り (yabukuguri)
* 藪(やぶ)薬(くす)師(し) (yabu kusushi)
* 藪(やぶ)華鬘(けまん) (yabu keman)
* 藪(ヤブ)柑(コウ)子(ジ) (yabu kōji)
* 藪(やぶ)漕(こ)ぎ (yabukogi)
* 藪雨(ヤブサメ) (yabusame)
* 藪(やぶ)虱(じらみ) (yabujirami)
* 藪(やぶ)雀(すずめ) (yabusuzume)
* 藪(やぶ)蘇鉄(そてつ) (yabu sotetsu)
* 藪(やぶ)蕎麦(そば) (yabusoba)
* 藪(やぶ)畳(だたみ) (yabudatami)
* 藪(ヤブ)タバコ (yabu tabako)
* 藪(やぶ)力(ぢから) (yabujikara)
* 藪(ヤブ)椿(ツバキ) (yabutsubaki)
* 藪(ヤブ)手(デ)毬(マリ) (yabudemari)
* 藪(ヤブ)肉桂(ニッケイ) (yabu nikkei)
* 藪睨(やぶにら)み (yabunirami)
* 藪(ヤブ)人参(ニンジン) (yabu ninjin)
* 藪(やぶ)野(の) (Yabuno)
* 藪(やぶ)の中(なか) (yabu no naka)
* 藪原(やぶはら) (yabuhara)
* 藪蛇(やぶへび) (yabuhebi)
* 藪(ヤブ)苧麻(マオ) (yabu mao)
* 藪巻(やぶまき), 藪(やぶ)巻(ま)き (yabumaki)
* 藪豆(ヤブマメ) (yabumame)
* 藪(ヤブ)茗(ミョウ)荷(ガ) (yabu myōga)
* 藪(やぶ)紫(むらさき) (yabu-murasaki)
* 藪蘭(ヤブラン) (yaburan)
* 藪(やぶ)漕(こ)ぎ (yabukogi)
* 草藪(くさやぶ) (kusayabu)
* 竹藪(たけやぶ) (takeyabu), 竹藪(たかやぶ) (takayabu)
* 笹藪(ささやぶ) (sasayabu)
* 野良(のら)藪(やぶ) (norayabu)

#### Idioms

* 藪(やぶ)から棒(ぼう)に (yabu kara bō ni)
* 藪(やぶ)で馬(ま)鍬(ぐわ) (yabu de maguwa)
* 藪(やぶ)に剛(ごう)の者(もの) (yabu ni gō no mono)
* 藪(やぶ)に馬(ま)鍬(ぐわ) (yabu ni maguwa)
* 八(や)幡(わた)の藪(やぶ)知(し)らず (Yawata no yabu shirazu)

#### Proverbs

* 藪(やぶ)に目(め) (yabu ni me)
* 藪(やぶ)をつついて蛇(へび)を出(だ)す (yabu o tsutsuite hebi o dasu)
* 子(こ)を棄(す)つる藪(やぶ)はあれど身(み)を棄(す)つる藪(やぶ)はなし (ko o sutsuru yabu wa aredo mi o sutsuru yabu wa nashi)

### Proper noun

藪(やぶ) • (Yabu)
* a surname

### References

* ↑ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
* ↑ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
* ↑ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
* ↑ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

## Korean
### Hanja

藪 • (su) (hangeul 수, revised su, McCune–Reischauer su, Yale swu)
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